Job 28:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:

Job 28:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 11:6
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 38:24
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Romans 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Job 28:21-23
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and industrious searches, make themselves masters of. But does it therefore follow that men may, by their wit, comprehend the reasons why some wicked people prosper and others are punished, why some good pe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. fowl--rather, “ravenous bird,” or “eagle,” which is the most sharp-sighted of birds (Is 46:11). A vulture will spy a carcass at an amazing distance. The miner penetrates the earth by a way unseen by birds of keenest sight.